Given how few of this year''s Academy Award nominees were available to watch anywhere ahead of the ceremony itself, you could be forgiven for feeling a little bit short-changed this Oscars season. Sti...
04.14.2021 Msn.com and 3 sitesYesterday we looked at the very first years of Best Picture winners, 1927 to 1930. Today, as we march through the decades, we look at 1931 to 1939. Let''s begin… 1931/1932 What Did Win: Grand Hotel Ha...
04.17.2021 Breitbart.comIn part four of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1950 and 1959. The cult of oh-so-sophisticated movie writers love to run down the 50''s, as a deca...
04.20.2021 Breitbart.comIn The Father, Anthony Hopkins plays Anthony, a man who''s trying to figure out how his life fits together. He''s become the missing piece in his own private jigsaw puzzle. Stalking around his spaciou...
04.15.2021 Theringer.comThis week on Episode 425 of the , inspired by our review of Thief, we discussed our favorite directorial debuts in film. The first time we did this list was all the way back on , in the days before Brendan, so we felt it was time to revisit this topic and give it an update. Not only have we grown as cinephileâs and critics since then, the quality of debuts weâve seen in the last decade is just astounding. In addition to the classic directorial debuts thatâs often talked about in this conte...
04.14.2021 Insessionfilm.comThe film historian Sheri Chinen Biesen writes in her book "Blackout" that there are two separate strains of film noir—one arose during wartime, the other followed it: "These early noir films created a...
04.16.2021 Tasteofcinema.comJust when you thought it was getting slightly better and you can start removing your mask, the worse other “science” news is released into the public sphere in a not so laymen terms friendly publicati...
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